La Zola, Émile 1840-1902 creator text utu 2004 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La Bête humaine" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1890, the seventeenth volume in the Rougon-Macquart series. Set along the Paris-Le Havre railway line, it follows Jacques Lantier, a train engineer who suffers from hereditary murderous impulses triggered by sexual desire. When a railway executive is brutally murdered, Jacques becomes entangled with Séverine Roubaud and her husband in a dark web of jealousy, violence, and deadly secrets. This thriller shocked Zola's contemporaries with its catalog of crimes and catastrophes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine Release date is 2004-02-01 This eBook was produced by Carlo Traverso Original publication data not identified French fiction -- 19th century PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5154 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5154 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133135.0 5154